I appear to have triggered a Welsh independence movement with my fitness column. Specifically, this line: “All that energy spent, no distance covered, like eating cottage cheese or learning Welsh.” I feel I should clarify: learning languages is notoriously hard >>
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it came in a paragraph where you were describing something as 'existentially pointless' though, which made the joke appear quite loaded. A few things: 550,000 speakers in Wales, approx 750,000 worldwide. But it gets criticised and sniped at all the time, which is why we can 1/2
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2/2 appear touchy. Imagine the language you speak with your mum and dad and kids being described as 'pointless' with a frequency I'm sure you would find surprising. Especially when it's used an odd political stick to beat us with ('if there were no Welsh language road signs we
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Ah but Zoe, YOU say it has low reward as your clinical system of measurement is so different to ours. This is the language of our country, a language of the deepest emotion and love, spoken by many and growing
Bless you. Hope you enjoyed the rugby 

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Well said Carol

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I wrote a book last year, and one of the chapters was about Welsh, the language I spoke at home and was educated in. Anyway. I’ve been told that this paragraph resonated with peoplepic.twitter.com/rmLXSPS3s4
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There are around 800,000 Welsh speakers and despite speaking Welsh 95% of the time for 35 years I doubt I’ve ever spoken to more than 1,000 of them. Using a language is not about how many speakers there are but being part of a community and culture where the language is spoken.
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And, Heaven help us, Cymraeg is a global language too. Not at all insular. Who’d have thought?
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It's the embedded assumption around the 'worth' of a language based on number of speakers that grates. Look at it this way: Welsh has survived despite its proximity to such a dominant linguistic culture. Not sure I understand the low reward point.
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V low reward for learning Mandarin, despite the billion-plus speakers of the language. However good I get, there are tens of millions (probably) of bilingual Chinese people who are better.
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